Antique French Art Glass Art Deco Schneider Orange Glass Coupe Bowl, 1920

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A fine & large French Art Deco glass coupe by Charles Schneider, circa 1920.
This very large & elegant stemmed … more A fine & large French Art Deco glass coupe by Charles Schneider, circa 1920.
This very large & elegant stemmed glass coupe having a wide mottled carnelian color flared bowl, raised on a striated stem and standing on a slightly raised striated circular foot, the stem & foot is a dark green and with strong light also shows purple, the foot having the engraved signature "Schneider".
This large coupe is in excellent condition and is a great example of early work by Schneider.

Ernest and Charles Schneider grew up in Nancy, France. In 1903, Ernest Schneider (1877-1937) was hired by the sales department of the Daum frères factory . He got his younger brother Charles, who had trained as a sculptor at the School of Fine Arts in Nancy and then in Paris, to propose projects for vases and glass pastes. This collaboration continued until 1911. They founded their own company, Verreries Schneider , in Épinay-sur-Seine in 1913. The company's success was confirmed after the end of hostilities in 1918. It had up to five hundred employees in 1925 and sold its creations all over the world.
After 1918, the first pieces with enamel decoration of flowers and landscapes took up the studies drawn before the war as well as those of his friend Gaston Hoffmann . However, Charles Schneider quickly became the sole creator of the pieces. Gradually moving away from Art Nouveau , he developed a very personal genre, characterized by bright, powerful, contrasting colors and naturalistic and stylized motifs, perfectly symbolizing the Art Deco style of the interwar period 2 .
The company produced under two brands, Le Verre français and the Schneider line . The first is intended to be more accessible with 17 variations of shades compared to 32 at Schneider. It causes a sensation with its "butterfly" decoration created around 1925 representing red and blue insects on an azure cloudy background. It uses complex techniques such as bubble glass . Some productions are signed "Charder", an abbreviation of Charles Schneider.
The glass market was, however, seriously affected by the Great Depression of 1929 and led the Schneider brothers' company to bankruptcy in 1938 .
The Charder manufacturing brand & Le Verre français was the largest art glass-works in Europe in the 1920s and 1930s. A large majority of its creations, very much influenced by the Nancy school, are by Charles Schneider. less